Best Odd Thomas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”

Imagination Power Creation Thought Will Odd Thomas Rodion Romanovich Brother John

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.”

Age Childhood Adversity Perseverance Innocence Odd Thomas Jolie Harmony

Book:Odd Interlude #1

Source: Odd Interlude #1

“But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination”

Memories Childhood Abuse Victim Odd Thomas

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.”

Life Dreams Childhood Adulthood Hopes Odd Thomas Brother Knuckles

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...”

Love Be Yourself Odd Thomas Annamaria Jolie Ann Harmony

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.”

Life Age Courage Old Age Illusions Odd Thomas Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Denial couldn't be maintained.”

Life Effort Denial Odd Thomas

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.”

Misguided Odd Thomas Brother John Mad Scientists

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.”

Change Forgiveness Actions Consequences Odd Thomas Absolution Rodion Romanovich Brother John Permenance

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“...With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open. Brother John says the hiss is not an inevitable consequence of the operation of the door. It could have been made to open silently. He incorporated the hiss to remind himself that in every human enterprise, no matter with what virtuous intentions it is undertaken, a serpent lurks.”

Odd Thomas Reminder Serpents Brother John Lurk Hiss Virtuous Intentions

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“More likely, they would just cease to exist." "That's death." "No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.”

Death Existence Odd Thomas Corpse Brother John

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.”

Love Friendship Popularity Odd Thomas Annamaria Blossom Rosedale The Happy Monster Popularity Vs Love

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.”

Friendship Pity Sympathy Odd Thomas Genuine Love Annamaria Blossom Rosedale The Happy Monster Sympathy Vs Pity

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.”

Known Journey Destination Unknown Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Be afraid in proportion to the threat.”

Fear Thread Odd Thomas Annamaria Proportions

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“All death matters." "Only to the living.”

Death Living Dead Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.”

Fear Courage Journey Destination Cookies Odd Thomas Annamaria Something To Live For

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.”

Heart Beauty Doubt Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.”

Fear Courage Grace Insanity Arrogance Odd Thomas Annamaria Acknolwedgement

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.”

Heart Trust Compass Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Odd Interlude #1

Source: Odd Interlude #1

“There will be something very wrong with any place we go.”

Journey Destination Problems Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“Every place is the same place in the end.”

Odd Thomas Places Annamaria Different And The Same

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.”

Fear Terror True Nature Hidden Odd Thomas Safe Harbor Annamaria

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?”

True Friendship Odd Thomas Genuine Love Annamaria Blossom Rosedale The Happy Monster

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.”

Love Life Purpose Understanding Destiny Odd Thomas Annamaria

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.”

Friendship Friends Lovers Enigma Odd Thomas Annamaria

Author:Dean Koontz

“Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.”

Loss Grief Delicious Odd Thomas Stormy Llewellyn Bodachs

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something.”

Barbarians Odd Thomas Ozzie Boone

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”

World Shadow Odd Thomas Monastery Untainted

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide.”

Death Fear Subconscious Odd Thomas Carnivals Amusement Parks Invulnerability Thrills Rides Repressed Fear Of Death

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.”

Culture Groups Individualism Uniqueness Odd Thomas Categorization Identities

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag”

Cowardice Bully Brag Odd Thomas Show Brother Knuckles Strut

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.”

Faith Beliefs Misguided Odd Thomas Brother Knuckles

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.”

Life Grace Gratitude Odd Thomas Terrors

Book:Odd Hours

Source: Odd Hours

“All of us are cowards at some time in our lives...”

Life Cowardice Odd Thomas Once In A While

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.”

Odd Thomas Elderly Wisdom Deeply Odd

Author:Dean Koontz

“It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting." "Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card”

Sarcasm Odd Thomas Dimples Eddie Fischer Get Out Of Jail Free

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.”

Life Mystery Meaning Odd Thomas Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.”

Actions Odd Thomas Necessity Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there's always some totally drunk girl who thinks you're smitten by her, when what you're really wondering is if she'll vomit on your shirt or instead on your shoes.”

Girl Shoes Drunkenness Odd Thomas Sushi Parties Vomit Shirt Eddie Fischer Funny Hatss

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean." "It's not a prediction." "It's not? Then what is it?" "It's what is.”

Odd Thomas What Is Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.”

Wise Foolish Odd Thomas Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.”

World Illusion Hidden Odd Thomas Ordinariness Placid Unbalanced Seething

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?”

Death Humanity Media News Murder Shooting Odd Thomas Current Events Mass Murder State Of The World

Book:Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...”

Thoughts Slipping Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning — that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.”

Rationality Unknown Odd Thomas Irrationality Mystery Of Life Blind Devotion

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?”

Language Knowledge Words Intellect English Odd Thomas Meanings Rodion Romanovich

Author:Dean Koontz

“Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.”

Science Universe Connections Galaxy Odd Thomas Quantum Theory Rodion Romanovich

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Mr. Thomas, did you know that in an experiment with a human observer, subatomic particles behave differently from the way they behave when the experiment is observed while in progress and the results are examined, instead, only after the fact?" "Sure. Everybody knows that." He raised one bushy eyebrow. "Everybody, you say. Well then you realize what this signifies." I said, "At least on an subatomic level, human will can in part shape reality.”

Science Odd Thomas Observe Human Will Rodion Romanovich Subatomic

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.”

Science Order Chaos Odd Thomas Rodion Romanovich

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd